Building a TeamWithout Getting Overwhelmed

For most people, staying balanced while building a team is
difficult.

It's hard enough to figure out what needs to happen first. Not to mention 4th
or 20th. As a QA person I'm sure you find yourself looking far down the
road thinking, wondering or worrying about the future.

It's hard to ignore the fears, uncertainties and doubts that come along with
all the responsibilities you face on a daily basis.

Not only do you have your job to manage and a team to build, you also
keep a life to manage. Maybe you have kids, a husband, a dog, a house, a REAL
LIFE to tend!

What's Important Right Now?

But I'm sure if you're like most business people, you find yourself
neglecting different aspects of your life as you focus on "what's important." Sometimes growth
in one aspect of our lives comes as other parts of our lives are dying.

Since this page focuses on team building to improve QA systems I'm going to focus on how to
stay balance while building a team. However this advice applies to many
different aspects of your life.

Building a team takes patience, commitment and dedication. Too often these
three words add up to one specific thing: time. Yet, we all want more time. Lack of time causes lack of sleep at night, lack of exercise, missed vacations, and valuable missed time with our families. Lack of time makes us unhappy, burned out, and bitter with our
lives.

Letting Go of "Control" to Regain It

That is one of the most powerful aspects of having a team is that you can delegate tasks and ask questions of experts who might have a fresh perspective on a problem that you can't seem to solve. You must give up this false sense of "control" in your business and share the problems, solutions and desired outcome with your team.

Giving up control does not come naturally to most business owners. . . many of us, perfectionists that we are, hang onto a false sense of control with a death-grip. . .

. . . but this is why our lives become unbalanced in the first place.

By building a team of winners and training them to be experts, not only do
you establish a team you can trust, communicate, and cooperate with, you allow
your life and your business life to come naturally back into balance.

You grant yourself more of what I call "soft space" and power to achieve your
goals.

Giving up the need to control often feels like death to many of us. We
literally feel like our lives are going to end.

Your resistance is an obstacle to your success, personally and building a
team. It prevents you both from living the lifestyle, or having the business you
want. It ruins relationships and destroys families.